Haunted Museum : : Longing, Travel, and the Art - Romance Tradition / / Jonah Siegel.

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• VerfasserIn: Siegel, Jonah,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 12 halftones.

For centuries, southern Europe, and Italy in particular, has offered writers far more than an evocative setting for important works of literature. The voyage south has been an integral part of the imagination of inspiration. Haunted Museum is a groundbreaking, in-depth look at fantasies of Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, focusing on a literary tradition Jonah Siegel terms the "art romance"--the fantastic voyage south understood as the register of an ambivalent desire for art and a heightened experience of reality. Siegel argues that Italy's allure derives not only from its celebrated promise of unique natural beauty and prized antiquities, but from the opportunity it offers writers to place themselves in relation to a web of prior accounts of travel to the native land of genius. Beginning with Goethe as the founding figure of the tradition, Haunted Museum moves from a rich reframing of literature from the first half of the nineteenth century--including new readings of works by Byron, de Staël, Barrett Browning, and others--to an ambitious examination of Henry James's well-known engagement with Europe, newly understood as a response to this important literary legacy. Readings of works by Freud, Forster, Mann, and Proust demonstrate the longevity of the tradition of looking to Italy for the representation of desires as impossible to satisfy as they are to deny.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: The Gesture Back -- INTRODUCTION A Haunted Form -- PART ONE The Art Romance -- CHAPTER 1 The Song of Mignon -- CHAPTER 2 The Art-Romance Tradition -- PART TWO James in the Art Romance -- CHAPTER 3 Henry James: Impossible Artists and the Pleasures of Patronage -- CHAPTER 4 The Museum in the Romance: James with Hawthorne -- CHAPTER 5 Speed, Desire, and the Museum: The Golden Bowl as Art Romance -- PART THREE Learned Longing: Modernism and the End of the Art Romance -- CHAPTER 6 Freud on the Road to Rome -- CHAPTER 7 Speed, Romance, Desire: Forster, Proust, and Mann in Italy -- AFTERWORD James, Freud, and the End of Romance -- Notes -- Index